Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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All of it will be on the St. Vincent's hospital land. We certainly need to query the difference between the cost of the pharmacy and the car parking and what else has been spent. We need to get more detail on that.

Another thing jumps out at me from the letter. We have just been talking about something very similar. It states:

As the construction contracts for a number of these works are ongoing, the individual contract costs are commercially sensitive and therefore are not broken out separately.

Somebody will be back here again talking about this. I am always very nervous about round figures. The €1 billion cost has been chucked around the place. It started off being €300 million. We have not seen any designs. We do not know what the budget is. The figure escalated from €300 million to €800 million and the figure being talked about at the moment is €1 billion. This is not on a difficult site like the children's hospital.